Show OEM 1 th le autin air y of the al by WYNDHAM MARTYN I 1 IN T THE c U S a service CHAPTER XII continued 14 that would be useless she said more coldly lle lie knew she was relieved to see eee mary coming toward her lie ile sighed so there must be a little more sailing balling under the skull and cross bones 0 As th the yacht neared 1 its t destination hamner became less certain of tits his future ills ilia C to stir todd and rob hob unwin into active tion had not come to fruitage ills aim was to awaken a 0 certain proper pride in the breast of tire the late captain halletts olletta II nephew was lie he an officer to allow the vessel lie he should control by right to bo be taken into new york by it a murderous like audrew andrew ormo any aay said hamner II amner w with jtb resigned madness badness that you way afraid of him film they wont believe it was caution ill soy say he was bigger and Fit il ronger arid and you was wise to walt wait it matter if they do laugh at you a bit sir hir shut up crosby todd said on an ile ho resented these implications or of cowardice it happened that h he was courageous and had long felt tits ills inaction was unmanly and it seemed that nob bob who had a spell lopell off duty expected him to more tender leader like qualities what wha do you think we ought to do Bo hob asked basked hamner II ninner sprang instantly into action seize him ha he said mald theres three to ono one and lie he dont suspect a thing tie him up the swine and then wire losa less for help put us in good its my belief the tempter went on that him and getzger bletz ger plan to get away to stop atop them go going ing overboard just after we get through the bridge and escaping or lowering a boat la in the dark wo we lathim let him get away from the police todd said wavering anil and yet tt it seems hardly playing tile the game to got him now if youre afraid aft aid just say BO ad ham nors manner was less leaa polite but dont expect me to want to give a bloody murderer fair air play same an aa id give you A happy thought struck him if tho the judge says to you why you yon do what albert hamner said bield you answer ill haye have to tell him everything 0 0 0 4 at the wheel was tight fight ing agugust the desire tos to sleep loep never had he gone so long with so little lit tie rest resl there was a great deal of eh shipping IP and he had not much confidence conn dence in to dodds todds dils seamanship the dawn was waa breaking chill ay and it gray erny when ho 60 passed port fort batica llon cock c it was there that the t three bree hung flung th them e in selves upon him film there was little opportunity to struggle hamner brought down a belaying pin on hla his head with enough force to render him film unconscious he was awakened by the ill harsh it arsh spitting of the wireless lie he realized that the albatross Allia trosa was anchored llo ile was lying on the floor of the wheelhouse lie ile was bound and gagged as aa neatly as aa ever metzger ger and veretha Ier elra had been tile the pain in tits lila side aide was now ow very severe and alit with it all was a racking headache mrs radway came on oil leek deck at about eight she thought that alint cros by todd and boh bob loomed at tier her with a certain degree of embarrassment and hamner II amner the ill wits with them the now york yacht club la Is sending out some som e one to take us in todd told her they ought to bo be hero here any minute now cow 1 I thought the doctor capable a of that she said frowning iles hes capable of anything fla hamner M cried you dont know what weve done for or you ion maam what does the man mean sho she asked of todd 1 I had to seize tile the ship he ha said there was no question of evading what ho he had find done or declining responsibility we found vint that orme had planned to escape and we are holding him film for the police yo yoi I 1 remember lie he lot let roe me use the wireless that was because lie thin t want to be caught its easier for a crook to escape in new york thun thu n tt it would be ba in limon where la in the coc doctor tor mrs had bad way asked she followed them to the bridge the attack had bad been made in the dawn and todd had no idea that 1 nam nera blow had been so BO severe or that so much blood had flowed fro from in the wound ile he tried to prevent mrs from rom seeing the man she knelt down at his side aide and removed the gag are you very much hurtt hurt she asked her heart was waa beating wildly after all they had betrayed him there were tears in ills his eyes she could see that he did not dissociate her from those who I iad had ad mado made the its assault they carried out your orders roost most successfully hs he said and turned his aching head bead away the shrill abrill sound of a siren stirred todd to action xa the club tannah la tinch he cried sirs alto bent over again norte norie else was near 1 I suppose you can never never believe it sher she whispered but I 1 had no hand ift A this I 1 shall always feel ashamed when I 1 think of it when he roada ninde no answer slie she went out on deck perhaps what had find happened was fated that hour to which lie he had find been drawing near nojir for a lifetime mary unwin had seized her arm excitedly c cit how like youth she thought to forget its recent perils arid and present 0 serene aserene front to the world look mary cried theres dad evelyn looked down at the launch and saw that there were men in police uniform too then slie she recognized 0 the senior partner of the great inn firm which transacted her business there wits nothing she could do now for the alie injured ninn than commend him film to mr 1 care it seemed an interminable time before the police questions were answered arid and she was on tile the yacht club launch a urich with tho the albatross lying ostern astern she had been glad to accept the opportunity to leave tile yacht on the alie much faster launch CHAPTER XIII mr unwin his mind the unwinds were speedily to find what wealth and the desire to help them boulo could do within twelve hours of meeting evelyn radway their small tint flat hail had been abandoned and they were occupying six beautifully appointed rooms in a mansion whose grounds ran down to the hudson it was unwinds mission to go to the albatross and bring back a list hat of things sirs mrs radway wanted on the night of ills his first visit to the ya yacht ch t lie returned in a mood of horrified excitement cit ement lio iio I io you remember a man named Un II amner niner lie he asked 1 I smaill never he be able to forget him his hostess answered why A sailor they called red lied mike alike must tiava have hod find some soine grudge against iino tier ner who from all accounts seemed a quiet elvil civil spoken ninn man mike got at him and jumped overboard with the poor fellow in his arms the stream was running fast and they save them horrible she exclaimed there roust mut have been a curse on the ship death upon death and theres another likely went on the prize crook of them all dr andrew ornie orme theres not much chanco clennee for him perhaps its the better way I 1 should like to have seen him the police think he was the brains of tile the whole thing even tile the man annn you c called clements seems to what it matter if they do laugh at you a bit sir have been toss less dangerous they have ormos ormes record complete and hope to bill 16 able to nil fill to in the details of the years yeara they lost sight of him unwin talked on asking innumerable questions and getting ready replies from all but sire alm hallway less than forty miles malca distant there were grouped around the bedside of a man who was not expected to live tin an inspector from hend headquarters quarters a police surgeon and an official stenographer now andy the inspector begged he be reasonable why go to your maker with a lie ou on your conscience tire the suspect held out his bis hands the inspector did not know what ant he meant finger prints said bettington faintly you verified them yet the inspector did not like to tell him lie he was rushed to the bedside in order to take his dying depositions A dead mans hands were ers just as good evidence as those through which tle blood coursed 1 I thought you told me lit he was all in the inspector raid to the surgeon you said eald give him halt half au an hour at the most iles one of those obstinate cusses said the surgeon there was a certain in his voice he could not forget that here was a member of his own profession who had attained worldwide world wide fame ere crime enmeshed him hes got the will to live tile surgeon added why not humor him film iles hes crazy to be finger printed the inspector came to the bedside it was not often lie he could grants grant a last favor so easily all right ardy andy ll 11 he grinned ill do it an hour later the surgeon was wanted on the telephone that bird aint andy orme said the inspector with a note cote of grievance gi levance in hla his voice ills ilia prints are absolutely new ones to us 11 the surgeon found the unknown awake land and in pain the surgeons look was not as friendly as it had find been lie ile had been mistaking a person of probably no importance with the discoverer of the celebrated orme method of cerebral surgery youre not andrew orme onne he assorted asserted there was waa irritation in tit his matin manner tir lie felt lie find been fooled fooled and the sensation was not pleasing 1 I keep on saying so bettington remarked smiling grimly now can I 1 be allowed to sleep in pence peace 0 sirs mrs hadway discovered tn in a man whom she could trust because he was honest and devoted to her interests A very great deal of business devolved upon him for the first time in his working life ilfe he was happy the massachusetts institute of technology was waa to receive nob bob and mary was to graduate from smith before a she he married crosby had yet to to win ills his way usually the unwinds took their meals in their own suite but very often they were invited to dine with mrs hadway the three of them mrs unwin was still unable to move were invited to a dinner party given by evelyn bad way when she learned that todd was to leave for an appointment in chicago exactly one week after landing from the albatross at seven mary heard her fathers voice on tile the telephone tie ile said lie he should not be able to get to Peek peekskill skill until nine mine your voice sounds cross daddy she said are you angry with anyone angry Is too mild a term lie he said and hung up usually lie he called tier her by some pet name but lie was abrupt different land and incomprehensible when lie he came they were sitting around a wood tire fire in the large hall around which the house was built unwin was ans one of those kindly men given to effusive greetings when lie he knew his people tonight he bowed to them all coldly not even to mrs radway badway did lie he unbend daddy sold said mary blary plaintively you spoken to poor crosby yet lies iles hurt 1 I have tin riu doubt said eald tits ly that a young oung man of tits his resourcefulness oud and intrepidity will recover from the shock crosby todd flushed blushed lu shed ile he had been told that tits his future tather lather ln in law was of a kindly rind and disposition assuredly the middle aged gray gentleman on the rug before the tire fire was waa not running true to form tin im afraid you have had a tiring day mrs airs remarked one of tho most miserable I 1 have ever spent tie he answered it 1 la cult to know just liow how to tell you about it mary came to hla his side and slipped tier her arm through hla his very rarely had she seen tier her father in such a mood as this had lie she wondered taken some dislike to crosby 7 ills ilia tone seemed evidence of it she was a pence peacemaker maker dont tell us ua now she begged in the morning this black wood mood would have hare passed floyd unwin took no notice ot of his dough daughter ter lie he stood there the girl might nut not have existed very he ha repeated 1 I 1 suppose I 1 had find better commence by proclaiming my own inefficiencies I 1 have been an economic failure airs radway I 1 have worked hard and there Is nothing to show for or it A month or so ago I 1 went to an old friend arid and asked financial uld aid from him it was for my childrens education I 1 needed IL it lie refused me I 1 learned then something of the scorn success tins has for such us its I 1 dont daddy mary begged she saw that for some soma reason ungues aed by her lie he was bent on crucifying himself publicly another roan man he went on unheeding a friend of equal stan standing dlug in point of years of offered ered aid it was not in his power to give it lie he set out to earn by his unquestioned skill the few thousand dollars I 1 needed it was for lob bob and mary alary he took this burden upon him I 1 remember that he said he would try and be a fairy godfather to them well he failed unwin fell into another fit of went silent musing when he spoke again it was of another subject 1 I have just come from tire the bedside of a man who Is dying lie ile looked toward crosby todd sourly orly the man you and my son at tacked wounded and left for or the police to drag to the tombs icom I 1 corn wend fiend your caution mr todd lodd evelyn radway was as glad that the dancing shadows from the open fire concealed her face 1 I dont don t understand you mr un cn win crosbi todd stammered daddy they had to do what they did mary told him earnestly you waited unwin resumed look ing implacably at todd lodd until lie he was worn out from tile the sleeplessness ho he endured for or you ou you and my son took him at a moment when lie he was mas physically exhausted you attacked him when he was suffering from dom three ribs broken la in the ight fight with the tha man lie killed you inflicted such violence that the splintered ends of 0 these fractured ribs penetrated the pleural sacs we know that bob tried cried we e t any idea he was hurt he ne never verlet fet me die know you lou must be fair air to them daddy the girl insisted I 1 pel feel just as bitterly toward you and mrs airs It adway lie he suld said you lent yourself to the betrayal there anything that looks from the soul of an honest man to tell women with their finer intuitional senses that lie he Is to be trusted evelyn Rad roadways ways voice had tears in it how could we know ste she walled A madam ladam unwin said coldly lie he told you many times lie he tried to con vince you but you would not listen after that I 1 suppose lie he was waa too proud lie ile told you all hla his real name can you lou deny that lie he claimed to be howard but jou ou went to Betting tons funeral just before we sailed bob reminded him you identified him 11 1 I do not want to spare myself tits ills father answered I 1 identified the body of a min man whose face was disfigured na as howard bettington because he wore Betting tons clothes was living in Betting tons studio and had papers of Betting bettington tons s in his pockets but I 1 did not fall all him as you did what man was it whom you identified evelyn hadway badway demanded with a passionate eagerness A name well known to you he re turned one andrew andiew orme forger and double murderer tills this has been established by the finger prints how did mr air bettington get aboard the albatross mrs still spoke from the en wrapping shadows 1 I told told you that one of my friends offered help that was bettington although lit his reputation w was 3 wide he had not needed to sell his pictures pictures ns ninny do to live bior I 1 or the sake of my children lie determined determine to fill commissions long ago given him lie ile went off on on his trip eagerly en gerly like a boy seeking adventure my aly 0 d I 1 what an adventured advent uiel urel in that great august storm which did such damage he was nearly drowned arid and took refuge in the 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